Fine, fine, fine just one last thing. I don't think BSMX threads are any different than any other threads. All you have to do is click "Watch Thread" to sub to a thread Congrats on the Olympic win. Mexico beat everyone they had to including some very tough teams, and may God have mercy on the US' souls tomorrow.
I like how they always wanna blame a coach (Porter, Bradley, Rongen, etc.) for all of their failures. Luis Fernando Tena led us to gold for Christ's sake!
lol 'unfortunate decision thirty seconds in'? what was that then? I heard that pressing was worked on in the training ground. Also football is a team game, im sick of hearing people debating who has the better players blah blah, the better team won. We defended and attacked as a team, didn't fight with each other and throw hissy fits when being subbed off. We didn't take thirty to forty five minutes to actually start playing. We didn't take off defenders and midfielders for strikers in the desperate hope that would make us score, even though your coach was too foolish to realise that football doesn't work like that. He deserves to lose his job.
Well, since I am a "nad" I get to read through pretty much every post in those forums...here's a gem: Jesus.
What's with the whole "We finished 1st in qualifying" bit? A one point lead? Its not like they were so far ahead. If anything they should have been more ahead, anyone remember the horrible campaign Mexico had with SGE?
At the end of the day, they did end up ahead. But it is not like they had an easy stride. It was really more our own incompentence that allowed them to finish first, with a last minte goal on 4 minute mark after the 90 mind you.... /p
Which makes it such a strange thing to point out. All the credit to them for getting the points they got, and we got all the criticism we deserved for dropped points on the road. But I have never heard of anyone using it as a big accomplishment before. It would be different if they had a big point lead but that wasn't the case.
This is all academic but as far as I'm concerned, the teams mentality changes after qualification and these games have less value to them. So the more important question is who qualified first?
qualification results can be misleading and its stupid to use those results for anything beyond determining who qualified. lets say canada is already qualified with a game left to play and guatemala is a point behind but still not qualified with a game to go. canada might not bother sending its A team to the last game thus losing the game while Guatemala would have to go all in in order to qualify. So guatemala ends up finishing with more points but that doesnt really mean anything since qualification is all that matters.
when? in 2004 mexico was already qualified before the beggining according to Lavolpe, and he delivered the most easy qualifier in the history of the sport for Mexico. Chepo will deliver again.
Grant Wahl in an interesting twist-- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/grant_wahl/08/14/us-mexico-exhibition/index.html I love how any success that Mexico experiences is immediately spun into something that may be a positive for the nads. But these are the same idiots who claim that any ounce of nad success benefits only them and not Mexico. If Mexico does well, they say something like "Clearly, this will motivate the USMNT into reaching greater heights and ultimately becoming a better team." If the USMNT does well, then it's "Dos a [sic] cero" and "Mexico will never improve."
we will never be good enough for them, its cause they got something we dont have, the ability to gain respect from losing to an u23 team